You can't spread all the wealth, which leads to movies like
Lady Bird and The Florida Project getting shut out and Phantom Thread only receiving a win for Costume Design (and a Jet Ski), but it would be just as
easy to imagine The Shape of Water winning for screenplay (and editing and
sound) in the olden days, denying Jordan Peele the opportunity to get his.
As for my own misapprehensions, I'd been led to believe
lady plumbing could be whipped out like an engine through the tailpipe, which
sounded fabulously quick and
easy.